What do you GPS/Navigate the trails with?

Combo of Gaia and Google on an iPad.

 

For the Gaia users in here:

Unofficial Google sat layer

 

I map trails for www.trailsoffroad.com and I use Gaia GPS. It's one of the best for what we do in my opinion I also have a Garmin inreach but find the larger screen of a phone or tablet with Gaia that much better.

 

Great way to find trails in the north east. Key term would be "historic roads".

 

Gaia. Downloaded offline maps for key areas. I also run a delorme atlas for each state, along with "NatGeo" fold out maps and a compass for fail-safes . Print out Satellite images of key junctions ahead of time and keep them in a folder for a trip for visual refference.

Btw buy some refrigerator magnets for the folding maps so you can stick them to the hood on windy days.

 

i download google maps for offline use & also have gaia premium which i download as well for each trip.
mainly use the downloaded google map, but resolution is an issue sometimes & i don't know why...any thoughts?
i use a wifi only ipad paired with a bad elf gps receiver which has worked very well

 

Fwiw, I have the best luck with and elevation layer and the neotrek layer most of the time

 

Here is a youtuber living out of his Jeep full time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL6MaWCAPA

Just his workflow. Might be useful if you learn by watching instead of reading.

 

Just to add from the video above. You can add "tiles" for offline maps like he did .or you can download offline maps. He said you couldn't use it offline, but his point was trying to say the same thing

 

Just started using GAIA. Say u mapped out a whole course well i downloaded it from Trails Off Road. Is there a way to navigate to the location from GAIA. Say im where i have no reception and i want to get from one trail 2 the other up in the mouanitns. Like maybe press the location i want and it will navigate me to start of the trial. ??

 

It's not a navigation system, it's a mapping system.